by Diana van de Laarschot
4.8 (43 reviews)
Category Posts in Custom Menu
Dynamic menus: List all posts from a category in your menu. Also works for tags, custom taxonomies as well as pages and custom post types.
Compatible with WP 6.9
v3.0.5
Current Version v3.0.5
Updated 1 month ago
Last Update on 03 Dec, 2025
Synced 14 hours ago
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- Version
- 3.0.5
- Last Updated
- Dec 03, 2025
- Requires WP
- 5.4+
- Tested Up To
- 6.9
- PHP Version
- 7.4 or higher
- Author
- Diana van de Laarschot
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- Rating
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- Reviews
- 43
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Frequently Asked Questions
Common questions about Category Posts in Custom Menu
Here's a walkthrough: Create a post with title "Post 1" and add a _new_ category "Category A" Save the post Go to Appearances > Menus (or via Appearance > Customize or Appearance > Editor, in WordPress 5.4 or higher) Add your category named "Category A" Open the menu item and check "Create submenu containing posts in this category." Save the menu If you now look at your website, "Category A" is replaced by "Post 1". Add additional posts to Category A and you will automatically see these additional posts in the menu. Missing CSS classes The CSS class 'current-post-ancestor' is not applied correctly. This is a bug in WordPress that I have reported here: https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/32918 This is not something I am able to fix in the plugin, it has to be fixed in WordPress. I'm sorry for the inconvenience. Performance issues The plugin is potentially very expensive, especially when you decide to build your entire menu out of nothing but category posts. The solution would be to cache the menu using transients, as reported here https://wordpress.org/support/topic/performance-problem-many-database-queries?replies=11#post-7829450 $my_cached_menu = get_transient( 'my_cached_menu'); if( $my_cached_menu === false ) { $my_cached_menu = wp_nav_menu( ... ); set_transient( "my_cached_menu_", $my_cached_menu, YEAR_IN_SECONDS ); } echo $my_cached_menu;
Problem: "I can't see what effect it has had. Nothing has changed (not that I can see) in the Appearance > Menu/Customize/Editor pages. It's just like before." If you are using a recent version of category Posts in Custom Menu and an updated version of WordPress, the problem can only occur due to your theme or other plugins conflicting with Category Posts in Custom Menu. Please disable all themes and plugins except CPCM; verify that the CPCM fields show; enable other plugins and themes one by one to determine which plugin/theme conflicts with CPCM. Note: A theme must either call wp_nav_menu() or apply_filters( 'wp_nav_menu_objects', ... ) for CPCM to be triggered.